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2017 295

December 2017

  1. 2017: Year in Review
  2. In memory of Christie Davies: defender of the right to joke
  3. Ayn Rand and International Politics
  4. SMP: On the Delusions of Price Level Stability
  5. Let’s talk about Star Wars
  6. *The Islamic Enlightenment* | A critical review
  7. BC’s weekend reads
  8. (Unofficial) IHS Graduate Student Facebook Group
  9. Can you manage what you can’t measure?
  10. Towards a genuinely Inclusive, Liberal, and Open Global Agenda
  11. The Dictator’s Handbook
  12. What classes are worth subsidizing?
  13. What if we have already been ruled by an Intelligent Machine – and we are better off being so?
  14. Words on the Move
  15. India-US relations and engaging with Trump

November 2017

  1. Lunchtime Links
  2. SMP: The War on Cash: What Do You Have to Hide?
  3. A Sex Fiend
  4. Party politics and foreign policy in Brazil’s early history
  5. A Radical Take on Science and Religion
  6. How to fix the journal model?
  7. North Korea, the status quo, and a more liberal world
  8. Is it Thanksgiving without the turkey?
  9. More on the trap of college debt
  10. Libertarianism, Classical Liberalism, Right Wing Populism, and Democracy
  11. In Praise of Academia
  12. The Knife is Coming
  13. SMP: Separating the Technology of Bitcoin from the Medium of Exchange
  14. A feast of classical liberal thought: Mont Pelerin Society in Stockholm
  15. Worth a gander
  16. Rules for Rulers
  17. Why Immigrants Are Superior
  18. Sound Money Project Relaunch
  19. Digging Deeper into Populism: A Short Reply to Derril Watson
  20. Digging Deeper into Populism

October 2017

  1. “The Impossibility of a University”
  2. Libertarian sighted at the Daily Beast
  3. Catalonia: a philosophical case for Secession
  4. A long read
  5. Lunchtime Links
  6. A quick rant on NY’s Excelsior Scholarship
  7. On Nancy MacLean’s Thesis
  8. White Supremacists
  9. Markets for Secrets?
  10. How fast does populism destroy economic freedom in Latin America?
  11. Physical Goods, Immaterial Goods, and Public Goods
  12. Sunday reading: Bertrand Russell
  13. On the Difference between Hayek’s Road to Serfdom and Increasing Central Planning
  14. Lunchtime Links

September 2017

  1. A short note on the Holy Roman Empire, “democracy,” and institutions
  2. What is a “left libertarian”?
  3. Worth a gander
  4. North Korea at the North Sea?
  5. On Financial Repression and ♀ Labor Supply after 1945
  6. A photo of Vincent and Michelangelo
  7. Deontology and consequentialism, again
  8. Minarchism, Anarchism, and Democracy: A Shared Challenge
  9. The Dreamers and Me
  10. The Cost of ‘Free’ – or why I don’t like freeware
  11. A Little More on “Price Gouging”
  12. The language of the economy: prices
  13. Price Gouging: Reality vs Fiction
  14. Declare Peace on North Korea!
  15. No, natural disasters are not good for the economy.
  16. A short note on ideological neutrality

August 2017

  1. What is going on in Brazil
  2. The Political is about to disrupt the crypto-currency scene -or at least they say so.
  3. Nazism: left or right?
  4. Cycling in Amsterdam
  5. Social noble lies
  6. BC’s weekend reads
  7. Lunchtime Links
  8. Inventions that didn’t change the world
  9. Some thoughts on the ivory tower; part 1: discrimination
  10. Human Action, Ch. 1
  11. Worth a gander
  12. Make neo-Nazis flop off Broadway: public choice and Tina Fey’s sheetcaking
  13. Lunchtime Links
  14. Worth a gander
  15. Is Socialism Really Revolutionary?
  16. When Should Intellectuals be held Accountable for Popular Misrepresentations of their Theories?
  17. The Counterfactual and the Factual
  18. BC’s weekend reads
  19. Public choice and market failure: Jeffrey Friedman on Nancy MacLean
  20. The case of James Damore: defending the Google engineer who was fired over a ‘controversial memo’
  21. Lunchtime Links
  22. Why I’m No Longer a Christian: An Autobiographical/ Philosophical/ Therapeutic Explanation to Myself
  23. When to list working papers?
  24. Mea Culpa: Israel and Palestine
  25. Freedom of Conscience and the Rule of Law
  26. Some Thoughts on Best of Enemies
  27. From the Comments: Israel and Palestine
  28. BC’s weekend reads
  29. Lunchtime Links

July 2017

  1. A short note on the riots in Jerusalem
  2. BC’s weekend reads
  3. Some Thoughts on State Capacity
  4. The Protestant Reformation and freedom of conscience II
  5. Political Decentralization and Innovation in early modern Europe
  6. AI: Bootleggers and Baptists Edition
  7. In Search of Firmer Cosmopolitan Solidarity: The Need for a Sentimentalist Case for Open Borders
  8. The Economics of Hard Choices
  9. BC’s weekend reads
  10. Trump Jr.
  11. Minimum Wages: Short rejoinder to Geloso
  12. BC’s weekend reads
  13. Minimum Wages: Where to Look for Evidence (A Reply)
  14. Minimum Wages: Where to Look for Evidence
  15. More simple economic truths I wish more people understood
  16. Rent-Seeking Rebels of 1776
  17. Algeria: a sparse memory
  18. The Deleted Clause of the Declaration of Independence
  19. Adam Smith on the character of the American rebels
  20. The Behavioural Economics of the “Liberty & Responsibility” couple.
  21. Mexicans in Mexico
  22. Muslim Welcome
  23. BC’s weekend reads

June 2017

  1. Simple economics I wish more people understood
  2. Against Guilt by Historical Association: A Note on MacLean’s “Democracy in Chains”
  3. The importance of understanding causal pathways: the case of affirmative action.
  4. James Buchanan on racism
  5. BC’s weekend reads
  6. The Old Deluder Satan Act: Literacy, Religion, and Prosperity
  7. Immigration and States’ Rights
  8. A Right is Not an Obligation
  9. BC’s weekend reads
  10. Paradoxical Geniuses: “Let us burn the ships”
  11. Adam Smith: a historical historical detective?
  12. Is the U-curve of US income inequality that pronounced?
  13. Highly recommended work on Ayn Rand
  14. “Fuck Your Vote!”
  15. Could the DUP push UK Conservatives towards a ‘Norway Option’?
  16. Pittsburgh, not Paris: What’s a libertarian response?
  17. The death of reason
  18. BC’s weekend reads

May 2017

  1. A Short Note on “Net Neutrality” Regulation
  2. Vincent Geloso Interviewed for his Work on the War on Drugs
  3. What is the optimal investment in quantitative skills?
  4. A short note on God
  5. An argument against Net Neutrality
  6. Know your data, show your data: A rant
  7. James Cooley Fletcher
  8. A Tax is Not a Price
  9. On Borjas, Data and More Data
  10. From the Comments: Naval Power and Trade
  11. A short note on Brazil’s present political predicament
  12. Can we trust US interwar inequality figures?
  13. A short note on the Trump-Russia scandal
  14. Empire effects : the case of shipping
  15. BC’s weekend reads
  16. Japanese adoption
  17. Can we stop using Spanish for migrant services?
  18. Who is Jair Bolsonaro and why you should care
  19. Some ideas to guide your thoughts on health care
  20. Some Comments on the Latin America Liberty Forum 2017
  21. Is persecution the purpose?
  22. Should we tax churches? A Georgist Proposal
  23. On the paradox of poverty and good health in Cuba
  24. Where is the optimal marriage market?
  25. The Return of Cyclical Theories of History
  26. On British Public Debt, the American Revolution and the Acadian Expulsion of 1755
  27. Turkey’s Referendum: Authoritarianism and Electoral Fixes

April 2017

  1. On doing economic history
  2. Immigration and Jobs – Reprise
  3. The Protestant Reformation and freedom of conscience
  4. Ending supply management would not cost $30b
  5. Auftragstaktik: Decentralization in military command
  6. How dairy farmers unions in Canada are distorting the facts about supply management
  7. Minimum wages: The economist as a psychologist
  8. On Evonomics, Spelling and Basic Economic Concepts
  9. Geopolitics and Asia’s Little Divergence: State Building in China and Japan After 1850
  10. From the Comments: Weber, Geloso on inequality
  11. BC’s weekend reads
  12. Ricardo and Ringo for a free-trade Brexit
  13. But who will build the roads?!
  14. Would regulation stop the mistakes of rating agencies that contributed to the 2008 crisis?
  15. Emerging Political Realities in India
  16. Where is the line between sympathy and paternalism?
  17. Does business success make a good statesman?
  18. A short note on monarchical nostalgia
  19. Coup and Counter Coup VI: Presidential Authoritarianism in Turkey
  20. BC’s weekend reads
  21. Coup and Counter Coup V: Jacobins and Grey Wolves in Turkey
  22. Mid-Week Reader: The Justice of US Intervention in Syria
  23. Coup and Counter Coup IV The Kurdish issue in Turkey
  24. Unilateralism is not isolationism
  25. Differences in life expectancy within Canada, 1921 to 2011
  26. Pride and Subsidies
  27. The GDP, real wages and working hours of France since the 13th century
  28. How to take over Syria, Roman edition
  29. Race as a bundle and its implications
  30. On the reversal of fortune, urbanization and Canada
  31. Bruce Lee’s Application Of Taoist Philosophy In Jeet Kune Do
  32. On Liberalism & Race
  33. BC’s weekend reads
  34. French Africa
  35. Dear Mr. Pirie, refrain from using the “neoliberal” label
  36. Military Dictatorship in Brazil: Was it worth it?
  37. What makes robust political economy different?
  38. The End of the Past
  39. Coup and Counter Coup III (Gülenists and Kemalists)

March 2017

  1. Some problems with postmodernism
  2. Did Inequality Fall During the Great Depression ?
  3. Coup and Counter Coup in Turkey II (Immediately after the coup and party politics)
  4. Artificial Intelligence and Medicine
  5. The Antebellum Puzzle, Anthropometric History and Quebec
  6. Can Median Voter Theorem explain political polarization?
  7. First year in California for good, as an immigrant
  8. Dutch politics, after the elections
  9. Immigration and Jobs
  10. BC’s weekend reads
  11. Coup and Counter Coup in Turkey (first of a series of posts on Turkey since 15th July 2016 and background topics)
  12. Main postmodern theorists and their main concepts
  13. The tortuous road to higher education
  14. Aggregate measures of well-being, England 1781-1850
  15. Star Trek Did More For the Cultural Advancement of Women Than Government Policies
  16. Why do we teach girls that it’s cute to be scared?
  17. The existentialist origins of postmodernism
  18. Famine and Finance: Credit and the Great Famine of Ireland
  19. The Latin American tropism
  20. The Heights of French-Canadian Convicts, 1780 to 1830
  21. Immigration, Cultural Change, and Diversity as a Cultural Discovery Process
  22. On power-display bias and the historians
  23. Illegal Immigration: Pres. Trump’s New Measures
  24. Brazil six months after Dilma Rousseff

February 2017

  1. A hidden cost of the war on drugs
  2. Communist Yugoslavia
  3. The Enforcement Costs of Immigration Laws are Greater than Alleged Welfare Costs
  4. Welfare Costs are not a Good Argument Against Immigration
  5. Inequality and Regional Prices in the US, 2012
  6. Wedding date and superstitions
  7. Rules of Warfare in Pre-Modern Societies
  8. How Canada Tracked the US during the Great Depression
  9. Where the state came from
  10. Once, Cubans were (maybe) richer than Americans
  11. Why did the Pseudo-Libertarians Bring a White Nationalist to ISFLC in the first place?
  12. Tour d’Amerique
  13. A very short response to Bruno Gonçalves Rosi’s reflection on Latin American Conservatism
  14. The problem with conservatives in Latin America
  15. The Roots of Truth and the Roots of Knowledge
  16. Hitching to Sweden at 17
  17. BC’s weekend reads
  18. Dear Muslim Fellow Citizens:
  19. Household size and growth since 1870 (albeit in Canada)
  20. On 7 million deaths from air pollution
  21. How school choice can benefit teachers
  22. What the Bible really says about how to treat refugees
  23. “Watch” the (industrial) revolution!
  24. Did the Thirty Glorious Years Actually Exist?
  25. Some thoughts on “Thinking About Libertarian Foreign Policy”
  26. On immigration, trade, and inequality: why nobody should care (that much)
  27. Sex, again
  28. Foreign Policy in the Liberal Tradition: The Real Story
  29. Against Libertarian Populism
  30. Did 89% of American Millionaires Disappear During the Great Depression?

January 2017

  1. Joaquim Nabuco, a Brazilian visionary in Washington
  2. A non-argument against immigration
  3. A Bad Teenager
  4. When (Where and Why) Women Were More Literate than Men
  5. US Immigration: a Primer
  6. On Minimum Wages, Health Code Violations and Proper Assessment
  7. The New Colossus
  8. How much has Cuban productivity increased since 1960?
  9. Angry? Learn economics!
  10. The culture that is Argentina
  11. On Gentrification, Inequality and Zoning
  12. On Sugary Drinks, Taxes and Demand Curves
  13. Anarchism
  14. On Tax Resistance, Censuses and the Cliometrician’s Craft
  15. Trump Is Right!
  16. Trump’s Inauguration: Ageing Pains
  17. Is Trump So Old? Its all relative really!
  18. On the (big) conditions for a BIG
  19. The Pox of Liberty – dixit the Political Economy of Public Health
  20. How Well Has Cuba Managed To Improve Health Outcomes? (part 3)
  21. Even More Sex
  22. What is Wrong with Income Inequality? Five Reasons to be Concerned
  23. “Ugly Conservative Sacred Cows”
  24. From the Comments: Ottoman autocracy, Turkish liberty
  25. From the Comments: New Republics, Westphalia, and Russian Strategy
  26. A Common Conservative Fallacy
  27. Ten best papers/books in economic history of the last decades (part 2)
  28. Ten best papers/books in economic history of the last decades (part 1)
  29. Skills and creativity
  30. BC’s weekend reads
  31. A beautiful bit of small world mojo
  32. On How Poor France Was in the 18th Century?
  33. The Ottoman Empire and Libertarianism
  34. Free lunch: college edition
  35. Public Support for OReGO: Preliminary Results
  36. Libertarians on Climate Change
  37. French Expatriates and Foreign Francophiles
  38. Minimum wage and length of poverty spells
  39. NoL Foreign Policy Results: Preliminary
  40. Our Daily Bread and a Horse’s Ass

2016 282

December 2016

  1. Stock markets and economic growth: from Smoot-Hawley to Donald Trump
  2. The Asian Age
  3. BC’s weekend reads
  4. On 19th Century Tariffs & Growth
  5. A moral inquiry
  6. Foreign Policy Survey
  7. Spanish GDP since 1850
  8. On getting the data right : price disparities before 1914
  9. We can’t engineer our way out of this
  10. My favorite posts at NOL this year
  11. How Well Has Cuba Managed To Improve Health Outcomes? (part 2)
  12. New Year Research Resolutions – or – What are you working on?
  13. My review for Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
  14. On quasi-rents and the minimum wage
  15. The struggle for life
  16. Canadian Megatrends: Top 1% income share and median age
  17. Summing up: the year of irrationality
  18. SteemFest interview
  19. 2016: Year in Review
  20. Has Canada been Poorer than the US for so long?
  21. Minimum wage, measurements and incarceration rates
  22. Sensitive and Crucial: on Measuring Living Standards in the 18th Century
  23. Trump and Tillerson Could Save Our Bacon
  24. On Capitalism and Slavery : Pêle-Mêle Comments
  25. Does socialism need to be corrupt?
  26. Wars and Presidents: Avoiding the Power-Display Bias
  27. How Well Has Cuba Managed To Improve Health Outcomes? (part 1)
  28. Inflation in Canada and the US since 1774
  29. Communism and reading
  30. The most depressing thing with Chetty et al.
  31. Chetty et al and the metamorphosis of the earnings curve
  32. Prices in Canada, 1688 to 2015
  33. Sons outearning Fathers in Chetty et al. : working hours should be considered
  34. Cheap college: Ten Tips
  35. A flaw regarding the chance of “out-earning” your parents
  36. In Cuba, not having a car might save your life
  37. Regional jealousies and transboundary rivers in South Asia
  38. Testing the High-Wage Economy (HWE) Hypothesis
  39. Carta de Voltaire dirigida a Rousseau, em resposta a ele
  40. The Uniqueness of Italian Internal Divergence
  41. Has there been any improvements in the relative economic conditions of American blacks?
  42. How I Helped Win World War Two
  43. On the trade off between the rule of law and lower taxes
  44. When Black Unemployment Rates Were Equal to White Unemployment Rates…
  45. Who needs a list of progressive professors?
  46. Planned obsolescence (in parts)
  47. What if fake news was merely an attempt at political entrepreneurship?

November 2016

  1. On Cuba’s Fake Stats
  2. Socialism is just a new form of slavery
  3. Identity Politics, the Alt-Right, and Empathy in Cultural Discourse
  4. The ugliness of international politics
  5. Is planned obsolescence a good thing?
  6. The Homo Economicus is “The Body” of the Agent
  7. Castro: Coercing Cubans into Health
  8. England circa 1700: low-wage or high-wage
  9. Adios a Fidel
  10. Josh Barro and the Gold Standard
  11. The Genetics of Success
  12. Safe Places, Continued
  13. Trump’s rejection of TPP: a political economy comment
  14. Alguns mitos, equívocos e objeções comuns ao capitalismo parte 2
  15. “Statogenic” Climate Change?
  16. When are safe places okay?
  17. From the Comments: Lenin knew what he was doing when he picked Stalin
  18. “Apparently they have been whispering while others have been shouting obscenities and interrupting guest speakers.”
  19. So, something that makes me smile for a change.
  20. Explicando a eleição de Trump para brasileiros
  21. Come back Jon Stewart!
  22. Two points that bear repeating
  23. Fight for your economic right to party
  24. Trump Will Probably Win the Election
  25. BC’s weekend reads
  26. Trump, Liberty and Pizza
  27. Lifehacks: How to use Facebook better
  28. The US elections: good, bad, and ugly
  29. Brazil: the country of slavery yesterday is the country of socialism today
  30. To Women Voters:
  31. Early childhood memories of a Cambodian refugee camp
  32. BC’s weekend reads
  33. An undignified part of me (of which I am ashamed)
  34. Some Thursday afternoon love
  35. A quick update on life in ATX
  36. Does academia have a diversity problem?

October 2016

  1. Great quotes by Vladimir Lenin
  2. BC’s weekend reads
  3. Great quotes by Joseph Stalin
  4. The legacy of autocratic rule in China
  5. The right to lose
  6. What’s the difference between open borders and Open Borders?
  7. Porque privatizar (ou desestatizar) o ensino é uma das melhores reformas que se pode fazer
  8. Sweet Skateboard Tales
  9. A “don’t rock the boat” theory of political change
  10. BC’s weekend reads
  11. A libertarian case for Hillary Clinton
  12. Words and Actions of Trump the Horrible
  13. Intervention for your own good
  14. O que é socialismo?
  15. The trade offs of Hillary vs Donald
  16. Peter Singer vs The Poor
  17. What is the state of experimental social science?
  18. BC’s weekend reads
  19. Sexism, Trump, and American Media
  20. Some thoughts on Rio de Janeiro elections
  21. Taxes, Free-riding, and Federation
  22. New issue of Econ Journal Watch is out!

September 2016

  1. On granting the Nobel to Kirzner
  2. O capitalismo explora os trabalhadores?
  3. The Great Blessings of Cash
  4. BC’s weekend reads
  5. Another Race Riot
  6. Inherited wealth and size of government
  7. Some afterthoughts on Rio Paralympics
  8. Trump for president?
  9. A short note on minorities and the Left
  10. Minorities and Economic Growth: Evidence from Jewish Communities in Premodern Europe
  11. Alguns mitos, equívocos e objeções comuns ao capitalismo
  12. Immigrants’ Complaints
  13. Liberals and Conservatives should stop talking about guns
  14. BC’s weekend reads
  15. O que é capitalismo?
  16. Pornography, virtual reality and censorship [II]: puritanism and videogames
  17. Pornography, virtual reality and censorship [I]: presidents and feminism

August 2016

  1. Reply to Matthew Strebe on Hoppe and Immigration
  2. Cristianismo, socialismo, heresia e vale da estranheza
  3. Can money have a negative effect on happiness?
  4. Most Arguments Against Open Borders Lead to Extremely Un-Libertarian Positions
  5. BC’s weekend reads
  6. Final thoughts on Rio Olympics
  7. What’s happened tonight
  8. Massachusetts to let cabs tax Uber: The seen, the unseen, and the minor nuisance
  9. At a Muslim Wedding
  10. Still thinking about the Olympics
  11. Freud and property rights
  12. On Robots and Personal Identity
  13. Maternal Pride
  14. From the Comments: Foucault’s purported nationalism, and neoliberalism
  15. Foucault’s biopolitics seems like it’s just a subtle form of nationalism
  16. BC’s weekend reads
  17. NGDP 3% per year; NGO much less!
  18. A Note on Trump, Immigration, and Healthcare Reform
  19. Some thoughts on the Olympic Games and cosmopolitanism
  20. Voting For Potty-Mouth Trump
  21. Invitation to Steemit – a blockchain based social media platform
  22. A Muslim Woman and the Sea
  23. Theory versus Common Sense? The case of Free Trade
  24. What sort of “Meritocracy” would a libertarian endorse, if he had to?

July 2016

  1. The Coup in Turkey
  2. Gun Control Works Just Fine in France
  3. What is a nation?
  4. McCloskey, Western equality, and Europe’s Jews
  5. BC’s weekend reads
  6. Why Brexit is bad for Liberty
  7. Art, Photography, and Homophobia
  8. The Nice Massacre
  9. Classical Liberalism and the Nation State
  10. Reply to ‘Classical Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism’
  11. Classical Liberalism, Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism
  12. A note on the police or – “Why I don’t trust the police.”

June 2016

  1. BC’s weekend reads
  2. Why a Nexit would be good for the Netherlands
  3. The minimum wage still bites
  4. From the Comments: Pushback in favor of Brexit
  5. Brexit, free trade, and the EU
  6. A quick note on the Brexit debacle
  7. Black Women are not the most educated group in the United States
  8. The Case for the UK staying in the EU
  9. Group Privileges No, Detriments Yes
  10. Muddy thinking on child care
  11. NOL Foreign Policy Quiz, Part Two
  12. BC’s weekend reads
  13. We don’t have to ruin markets to do charity
  14. Rick solves the gun crisis
  15. The problems of ‘Exit’ and ‘Autonomy’ in (mostly American) libertarian thought
  16. Would a Universal Basic Income Increase Poverty?
  17. The Moral Worth of Chloe Kardashian
  18. Where did Homo Economicus come from?
  19. Migration from Bangladesh: Impulses, Risks and Exploitations
  20. The Cruel, Conceited Follies of Trump’s Colonialist Foreign Policy
  21. Dear Bernie Supporter: Keep an eye on foreign news
  22. “Voice, Exit, and Liberty: The Effect of Emigration on Origin Country Institutions”

May 2016

  1. Libertarians and Pragmatists on Democracy Part 4: Why Market Anarchism is more Democratic than Democracy
  2. Memorial Day in the Days of Trump
  3. BC’s weekend reads
  4. Narratives, Impacts and the Actors: Bangladesh’s 1971 Liberation War
  5. Sanders Supporters Don’t Support Sanders’s Policies: A Short Note on Yet Another Reason why “Deliberative Democracy” is a Myth
  6. A short note on two types of political structures
  7. Un ultra-libéral et Donald Trump
  8. Libertarians and Pragmatists on Democracy Part 3: Pragmatists on Democracy as a Way of Life
  9. BC’s weekend reads
  10. Large states, artificial borders, and the African exception
  11. Should Somaliland be recognized as a state by the international “community”?
  12. Elon Musk on the Heroic Journey for a Fantastic Future
  13. Libertarians and Pragmatists on Democracy Part 2: Classical Liberal and Libertarian Criticisms of Democratic Institutions
  14. From the Comments: Why care about Syrians?
  15. A Modest Proposal for Fiscal Reform
  16. “If we have to choose between ISIS and Assad…”
  17. Friedrich Hayek’s recollection of Ludwig Wittgenstein
  18. Socialism(s) – Part Two
  19. Socialism(s) – Part One
  20. Libertarians and Pragmatists on Democracy Part 1: What is Democracy?
  21. BC’s weekend reads
  22. A Note on the Econometric Evaluation of Presidents
  23. A Hayekian View of Safe Spaces
  24. Should UNM replace its seal?
  25. A depressing take on inequality

April 2016

  1. AEM Europe and PCPE in Prague, April 21-24 2016
  2. BC’s weekend reads
  3. Vote Different. Be A Libertarian. Let Life Live
  4. Coase’s “Nature of the Firm”: An Anthropological Critique
  5. The Case Against Galactic Government?
  6. Rick comments on the latest news
  7. Objective Moral Rules
  8. Mohammad Iqbal’s writings on Islam and on the partition of India
  9. The State versus Society, Part 12,908
  10. The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels
  11. Unanimous direct democracy
  12. Liberty and the Novel II (Austen and After)
  13. Economics in the ancient world?
  14. Liberty and the Novel I (Before Austen)
  15. Another unintentional argument for Hayek’s spontaneous order
  16. Does the EU promote liberalization?
  17. BC’s weekend reads
  18. How about no? Netherlands referendum
  19. Voter Participation: Something Has to Be Done
  20. The Myth of Primitive Communism
  21. A metaphor for the Socialist Calculation Debate
  22. When Europe Rejected Morocco
  23. Colonialism and Identity in Wasolon (and everywhere else, too)

March 2016

  1. Why Don’t Tribes Transition to Market Defense?
  2. Declining to Wed Gay Couples: Right or Wrong?
  3. How Fascism Will Come To America
  4. Were Confucians the first internationalists?
  5. Let us think together
  6. What does complexity theory tell us about government?
  7. A hypothesis implied by Galbraith
  8. An overview of India-China boundary disputes
  9. Why Rising Prices May Indicate Abundance
  10. The Dark Side of Polycentricity
  11. On Scottish Free Banking (a Canadian Perspective)
  12. “Landscapes of Nationalism” interview
  13. A libertarian argument for an FDA

February 2016

  1. Why Britain, in the Great Depression, is the best example in favor of NGDP targeting
  2. Prediction: Trump-Sanders 2016
  3. Asking the Wrong Question
  4. The European Union is Pathetic
  5. Jews in the West and Jews in the Middle East
  6. Myths about the “owners of capital”
  7. “On Working Shi**y Jobs”
  8. From the Comments: Ayn Rand on extremism
  9. Is there an Implied Consent to be Governed?
  10. BC’s weekend reads
  11. Forget income, the greatest outcome of capitalism is healthier lives!
  12. Free Trade and Labor Market Displacement
  13. BC’s weekend reads
  14. I wish I could just list every idea I’ve encountered then never cite anything…
  15. New issues of Econ Journal Watch, Reason Papers out
  16. The High Wage Economy: the Stephenson critic
  17. From the Comments: Sovereignty, the Commons, and International Relations

January 2016

  1. “Conflicts in South Asia Will Go On and On”
  2. NOL Foreign Policy Quiz, Part One
  3. On the Canadian economy: the “real” problem
  4. The Re-Privatization of Security (World Peace edition)
  5. Liberalism and Sovereignty
  6. What is the proper role of government? Galactic Edition
  7. How to split up California?
  8. BC’s weekend reads
  9. Is government decentralization the right answer to differences across regions?
  10. Can we use tax data to measure living standards (part 2)?
  11. Can we use tax units to measure living standards?
  12. Down All Your Markets
  13. What’s the difference between Saudi Arabia and Islamic State?
  14. “We’re all nothing but bags of stories”: Carlos Castaneda as a Countercultural Icon and Budding Post-Modernist
  15. NGO v. NGDP: In reply to Nunes and Sumner
  16. Why farms die and should die
  17. Basic income: a debate where demand magically disappears!
  18. From the Comments: Military intervention, democracy, and stability
  19. Women and secular stagnation
  20. Of Uber, cab drivers and compensation
  21. Malthusian pressures (as outcome of rent-seeking)
  22. Was Murphy Foolish to Take Caplan’s Bet?
  23. Are small autonomous political units economically viable?
  24. On celebrating the new year with a thought experiment

2015 284

December 2015

  1. NGDP, NGO and total expenditures
  2. South Asia and the Glass Ceiling
  3. Giving Up On The Masses
  4. Don’t target NGDP, target NGO!
  5. Natural Rights and Taxation
  6. BC’s weekend reads
  7. From the Comments: What is a “National Interest”? (Why not federalism?)
  8. A Very Merry Christmas, from India
  9. Urging Cambodians To Critique Their Culture
  10. Freedom of Speech on Campus
  11. Why Few ‘Social Justice Warriors’ Actually Care About Social Justice
  12. A Warm Welcome
  13. A quick update on NOL’s art project
  14. BC’s weekend reads
  15. A Quick PSA: Putting “boots on the ground” in Syria is still a dumb idea
  16. To Pledge or Not to Pledge
  17. From the Comments: Why did Cambodians trade foreign terror for domestic horror?
  18. Which countries are of US interest?
  19. Good Health Will End Civilization
  20. Fretting over Christmas gifts?
  21. My Publishing Adventure
  22. From the Comments: So what should the US do with Syrian refugees?
  23. *The World’s Your Stage* New book by our own Warren Gibson!
  24. El Día que los Argentinos Superamos el Cinismo
  25. From the Comments: A libertarian solution to Daesh (ISIS/ISIL) and the civil war in Syria

November 2015

  1. The Incredible Bread Machine (R.W. Grant)
  2. A Victory for the Big Center
  3. Putting a stop to the Argenzuela Project
  4. The Dangerous Inequality Meme
  5. Book Review: Hans-Hermann Hoppe – Economic Science and the Austrian Method
  6. What I’m reading (but not yet writing about)
  7. Gifts for Professors
  8. Turkey just shot down a Russian fighter jet
  9. Small Thought On The Terrorist Attack in Paris, France
  10. Syrian Refugees and Security
  11. Theory versus Common Sense? The case of the Dutch
  12. What About Terrorism?
  13. Philosophical Research on Seasteading
  14. BC’s weekend reads
  15. Goose Pimples and Hypocrisy
  16. From the Comments: Money, Currency, and Bitcoins
  17. A Phony Race Scandal
  18. Notes On Liberty ART
  19. ‘The Bitcoin Gospel’ and its Critiques
  20. BC’s weekend reads
  21. Buddha, A Lonely Human Rebel
  22. The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto (1988)

October 2015

  1. Cave Paintings and Elementary Science
  2. South Park’s ‘Safe Space’: A Parody On Stepford Students
  3. Republican Tax Plans are Misguided
  4. The selfish meme
  5. A response to a student
  6. Assessing Elections in Poland and Argentina in the Context of Populism and Liberalism in Europe and South America II (liberalism in the classical sense of course).
  7. Assessing Elections in Poland and Argentina in the Context of Populism and Liberalism in Europe and South America I (liberalism in the classical sense of course).
  8. From the Comments: Do Mexicans make good immigrants (to the US)?
  9. Chuang Tzu: The natural disposition of man is Political Anarchism
  10. What makes it science?
  11. La Bêtise et la langue française.
  12. BC’s weekend reads
  13. Information doesn’t matter
  14. Lao Tze, The First Libertarian
  15. “What every 21st century American should ‘know'”
  16. Should there be a Nobel in Sociology?
  17. Hayek’s Choice In Currency: A Way To Stop Inflation
  18. BC’s weekend reads
  19. Russia in Syria: A Gift to the West (but not to Syrians)
  20. The News: Fair and Unbiased
  21. Critics of Markets have Intervention Denial
  22. From the Comments: Asylum Seekers and the Canadian Experience
  23. BC’s weekend reads
  24. E. O. Wilson and Spontaneous order
  25. Asylum Seekers and Western Military Intervention

September 2015

  1. “Turkish Savagery” is up at Liberty Unbound
  2. A Matter of Legitimacy
  3. How does emigration impact institutions?
  4. How Can Crypto-currencies Democratize Society?
  5. BC’s weekend reads
  6. From the Comments: Trying to Make Sense of Left and Right (Again)
  7. Muslim Refugees in Perspective
  8. L’Anarchisme et la recherche de la liberté: recommendations des Déserts du Nouveau Monde.
  9. BC’s weekend reads
  10. An update from Memphis (Russo-Baltic edition)
  11. Hypocrisy!
  12. European Union: Creative Destruction Wave?
  13. Is the European Union Collapsing?
  14. Assisted Suicide and the Catholic Church
  15. The death knell of Open Borders?
  16. “Just Leave Me Alone Goddammit!”*
  17. Four of my papers on South Asia
  18. Migration from Bangladesh: Causes and Challenges
  19. The Poverty Of Democracy
  20. What is the distance between Damascus and Budapest?
  21. Marriage Licenses Should Not Be Granted to Gay Couples
  22. Words and Brain Damage
  23. USA President Elections. View from Russia

August 2015

  1. From the Comments: The Contribution of American Allies to Pax Americana
  2. Something I’m sure we can all relate to
  3. From the Comments: The Troubling Philistinism of American Libertarians
  4. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, 20. Concluding Remarks
  5. Tricks of Unequal Poverty: A Repost (In Honor of Bernie Sanders)
  6. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XIX, Charters and Constitutions
  7. Ian Bremmer’s American Foreign Policy Quiz
  8. A Different Kind of Pork (in France)
  9. Growing Poverty in the US: A Repost (In Honor of Bernie Sanders)
  10. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XVIII: Laws, Juridification and the Administrative State
  11. The Importance of Literature
  12. California Dreaming
  13. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XVII: Common and Civil Law
  14. Silent Majorities: Mass Incarceration Edition
  15. The blatant fascism of Bernie Sanders
  16. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XVI, Britain’s Significant Others: France and Germany (2)
  17. Larry Siedentop’s Straw Dog

July 2015

  1. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XVI, Britain’s Significant Others: France and Germany (1)
  2. Revolution by Tiny Steps
  3. Cultural Adaptation to Climate Change? Requesting Feedback
  4. From the Comments: Debunking Myths About Islam and Violence
  5. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XV, From Dutch Model to German Kings
  6. Liberty or “Security”: An Old Debate, A Familiar Straw Man
  7. America’s Muslim Problem: What To Do.
  8. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XIV, Revolution and the Dutch Model in the Late 17th Century
  9. Why You Should Avoid “Capitalism”
  10. Around the Web
  11. Right Back!
  12. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XIII, Revolution and the Dutch Model in the mid 17th Century
  13. A vision for environmentalists
  14. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XII, 16th Century England in relation to the Dutch Revolt, Germany & Spain
  15. Don’t Let Me Design Your Retaining Wall!
  16. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation XI, Norman, Angevin and Plantagenet England
  17. Percentages that Fairly Scream and, “Catastrophe” is a Greek Word
  18. From the Comments: Greece, the Euro zone, and Russian prowess
  19. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, X. Anglo-Saxon England, the Scandinavian, Frankish and Norman connections
  20. Confederate Flag Hysteria
  21. Greece: Democracy in Action
  22. Public Service Announcement: Opting Out of Student Gov. Taxes
  23. Threesome Liberation
  24. Greece Needs a Radical Transformation
  25. Around the Web: Greece Edition
  26. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, IX. British connections with Europe from the Stone Age to the Anglo-Saxon Invasion
  27. From the Comments: Intervention, Blowback, and Bad Faith
  28. Flag Burning, the Bill of Rights, and Leaving America Behind: Fourth of July Special
  29. Global Warming, Soot Pollution, Mayor Bloomberg, the Paris Conference (forthcoming): So Confusing, So Confused!
  30. Fiscal Watch Dog, The Dutch Way
  31. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, VIII. Germany’s post WWII contribution to market liberalism

June 2015

  1. Attention and Motivation
  2. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, VII.
  3. Morons of the World Unite!
  4. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, VI. From the 1832 Reform Act to World War One
  5. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, V: Britain and European Models
  6. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, IV: Britain the Enlightenment model for a liberal Europe?
  7. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, III: British Superiority?
  8. Kling and Henderson on intervention and blowback
  9. What would I ask the president in an interview?
  10. Government Wisdom and Collectivism Revisited
  11. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, II: After Waterloo
  12. Myths of Sovereignty and British Isolation, I: Waterloo
  13. Senator Rand Paul on Taxes: Chip off the Old Block
  14. A quick thought on justice
  15. Trade: Is Obama Right This Time?
  16. From the Comments: Libertarians and Love
  17. The Tyranny of Majoritarianism
  18. Milton on Free Political Institutions: ‘The Tenure of Kings and Magistrates’ (1649), ‘A Treatise of Civil Power in Ecclesiastical Courts’ (1659), ‘The Ready and Easy way to Establish a Free commonwealth’ (1660)
  19. Gay Parade: a Conservative Take
  20. A question on adverse selection for the economists
  21. The Lowest Levels of Love (with apologies to Dr Amburgey)
  22. David Friedman on Judging Outside Your Expertise
  23. Fourteen-Year Old Girl in Bikini Threatens Armed Cop
  24. The Fog of Foreign Policy
  25. Here’s why you should default on your student loans. And here’s why you shouldn’t.
  26. New issue of Econ Journal Watch is out
  27. Contra Argumentation Ethics
  28. Look at what just arrived in my hands
  29. Secession in Europe (but not the EU)
  30. Around the Web
  31. The GOP as a Homosexual Cabal

May 2015

  1. How about war, Professor Wall?
  2. Bernard Lewis, Edward Said, Facts, Ideology, and the Middle East
  3. Reply: Radical Democracy
  4. Health Insurance is Illegal
  5. Radical Democracy
  6. Milton on Freedom of Printing: Areopagitica
  7. A Tale of Two Cities (in Santa Cruz, California, USA)
  8. Freeware
  9. From the Comments: What do progressives think of Hillary Clinton?
  10. The Wicked Witch
  11. Mundane work is morally praiseworthy
  12. Introducing John Milton: Republican and Poet (1608-1674)
  13. Dear Greeks:
  14. Why buy local?
  15. Garbage could be beautiful
  16. Musings About Statism and Cultural Production
  17. Around the Web
  18. From the Footnotes: Race, Nationality, and Empire
  19. Some Quick Facts About Nepal

April 2015

  1. Le émeutes de Baltimore en blanc et noir
  2. The Two Ultimate Religions
  3. Epistemological modesty and unintended consequences
  4. Around the Web: Notewriters Edition
  5. Harrington, Commonwealth of Oceana, and A System of Politics (Expanding the Liberty Canon): Second of Two Parts
  6. Around the Web
  7. “Rand Paul’s Libertarian Lecture in New Hampshire”
  8. Harrington, Commonwealth of Oceana, and A System of Politics (Expanding the Liberty Canon): First of Two Parts
  9. Work
  10. Slowly debunking the trade leads to peace fallacy
  11. New issue of Reason Papers is out
  12. Around the Web
  13. Calls for harsh criticism: my first (of four) graduate school statement of purpose
  14. Towards a Confederation in the Holy Land
  15. My latest on Bangladesh
  16. From the Comments: Types of Federalisms, Good and Bad
  17. My latest book review: Rafia Zakaria’s “History of Pakistan”
  18. Around the Web
  19. Facts vs Narrative: American Peronismo
  20. Odysseus and Individuality
  21. The Framework Agreement on Iranian Nuclear Everything: Questions
  22. Can we count on juries?
  23. Some more thoughts on what to do with conspiracy theorists and other libertarian sympathizers

March 2015

  1. What is a nation?
  2. Barbarian Liberty and Civilisation in Homer
  3. Gracias, Carlitos
  4. From the Comments: The Suprastate and the Substate
  5. A proposal to help curb grade inflation.
  6. We Must Have Order!
  7. Robert Tracinski on the Left’s Anger Issues
  8. More on Liberty and Homer: Tacitus, Montesquieu, and Humboldt
  9. Review of “The Age of Abundance: How Prosperity Transformed America’s Politics and Culture”
  10. A History of Regional Governments (Part 1)
  11. Epstein on Rand Paul’s foreign policy views
  12. Around the Web
  13. Which MPOs are most efficient?
  14. Liberty and Homer
  15. Mexican immigration and the Open Border: Mexicans Go Home and Mexican Kindness
  16. Whither the ‘Liberty Canon’ series, amongst other questions?
  17. Has Senator Rand Paul been reading NOL?
  18. Eye Candy: the GDP (PPP) per capita of OECD Administrative Units (UPDATED)
  19. Fifty Years of Voting
  20. Some notes I wrote that I’ll never finish
  21. How to think like an individualist
  22. From the Comments: Mass Migration and Open Borders
  23. Let’s clear up the liberal mess
  24. From the Comments: Russia Resurgent and a Libertarian Strategy

February 2015

  1. What is social justice?
  2. Around the Web
  3. What’s wrong with migrating?
  4. Memoirs of a homeless piece of sh*t
  5. So you think war can be eliminated?
  6. Should the Italian PM support the Democrats?
  7. From the Comments: Why do France’s banlieues have 40% unemployment?
  8. A Short Note on Islam and Violence: Russian Edition
  9. How the Left Failed France’s Muslims: A Libertarian Response
  10. Another round of warm welcomes, please
  11. A Humble Creed
  12. On the value of nature
  13. Strange Historical Facts
  14. New Issue of Econ Journal Watch: Economists on the Welfare State and the Regulatory State: Why Don’t Any Argue in Favor of One and Against the Other?
  15. This week in ‘libertarian straw man fallacies’
  16. Guantanamo: A Conservative Moral Blind Spot
  17. Measles Vaccine? Not Me!
  18. From the Footnotes: Ignorance of Islam and of the Decentralization of Power
  19. Dumbing Down the World
  20. The Dalai Lama on Inequality
  21. Around the Web

January 2015

  1. The Saudis, the Holy Lands, and double standards
  2. The Gold Standard is Not Without its Costs
  3. Mexican Underdevelopment: Pop-Sociology
  4. Cuando la sangre llega al río
  5. “Mohammed — in pictures”
  6. The Best Book I Have Read Recently
  7. A Tale of Free Banking
  8. From the Comments: Foucault, Obscurity, and Liberty
  9. Martin Luther King Jr Day and Civil Rights: A (True?) Libertarian’s Lazy Perspective
  10. From the Comments: Islam and Islamism
  11. Artunç paper on legal decentralization and the Ottoman Empire
  12. Around the Web
  13. Charlie Hebdo: Todos, nadie, uno.
  14. The burden of imperialism, the virtues of immigration, and the importance of data
  15. La cultura y las identidades musulmanas ante los ataques terroristas en París
  16. Why Republican Libertarianism? V Concluding Remarks
  17. Does size matter?
  18. Gun Rights, the Black Panthers, and ‘the South’ in the United States
  19. Why Republican Libertarianism? IV
  20. “How to recognize and avoid embedded values biases”
  21. Federalizing the Social Sciences
  22. What’s up with Oil and the Saudis?
  23. 2014 in Review

2014 410

December 2014

  1. Around the Web
  2. What is a Governmental Intervention?
  3. A Quiz on Public Finance
  4. Could the social sciences benefit from being synthesized?
  5. The Most Embarrassing Factions of the US-Cuba detente
  6. Happy Holidays
  7. Why Republican Libertarianism? III
  8. Questions about R
  9. Six Months A Slave (The Drugs Don’t Work, They Just Make You Worse)
  10. Around the Web
  11. Net neutrality? Mail neutrality?
  12. Hayek on Human Rights Day
  13. Why Republican Libertarianism? II
  14. Why Republican Libertarianism? I
  15. Nationality, Ethnicity, Race, Culture, and the Importance of Citizenship for the Individual
  16. Staten Island and Cleveland: Different from Ferguson
  17. Economists are special, but what about Palestinians and American blacks?
  18. Libertarian as Ethnicity
  19. Friends of Liberty and Friends of Montaigne II: Marie de Gournay (Expanding the Liberty Canon series)
  20. Privilege in the Classroom

November 2014

  1. Oil Again: Keep an eye on OPEC members
  2. Ferguson: the Problem is Collectivism
  3. My brief thoughts on Ferguson
  4. Friends of Liberty and Friends of Montaigne I: de La Boetie (Expanding the Liberty Canon series)
  5. Around the Web
  6. Go Bruins!
  7. President Condemns Price Gougers, Dealers Raided
  8. From the Comments: What *are* the institutions that promote rational ignorance?
  9. A Matter of Expectancies
  10. Cold meetings at G-20
  11. Matthew is backpacking through South Asia, and he’s a-blogging his thoughts
  12. Florentine Liberty II: Guicciardini, Dialogue on the Government of Florence (Expanding the Liberty Canon series)
  13. Myths about Islam’s founder (Mohammed, Muhammad, tomato, tomato)
  14. Dr van de Haar’s new book is now available online
  15. Nations, States, and Foreign Policy Fantasies
  16. Around the Web
  17. Florentine Liberty I: Machiavelli, The Prince (Expanding the Liberty Canon series)
  18. Unemployment is Completely Unnecessary
  19. Rational ignorance and institutions
  20. Why I prefer Jon Stewart
  21. From the Comments: Race Consciousness and Stubborn Old Dudes
  22. I’m a “Centrist Anarchist Non-Interventionist Humanist Libertine”
  23. Cat-calling, free speech, and the continued cannibalization of the Left
  24. “In Praise of Midterms”
  25. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Icelandic Sagas of the Middle Ages
  26. Buddhist Lobbyists Push for Legislation Targeting Muslims in Myanmar (UPDATED)

October 2014

  1. Anti-Sikh Riots, Eastern Europe’s Normalcy
  2. We Can’t Bomb Our Way to Sanity
  3. Some Thoughts on Voting
  4. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Tacitus on Barbarian Liberty
  5. Around the Web: Rand Paul’s Foreign Policy Speech Edition
  6. From the Comments: Delacroix’s New Book, Kindle, and the Android App
  7. Canadian Vengeance
  8. Against Imperial Nostalgia: Or why Empires are Kaka
  9. Why not world government? Part 2
  10. Complex interdependence turned around
  11. From the Comments: The medieval Dark Ages were indeed dark
  12. The 100th Anniversary of the Defeat of Economic Land
  13. Columbus Day needs to go, but…
  14. Restore the Turkish Empire!
  15. Expanding the Liberty Canon: John Fortescue on the Laws and Government of England
  16. From the Comments: Organizational Ecology, François Nielsen, and the Lack of Diversity in Higher Education
  17. Capitalism for the Intelligent Ignorant – Just a Detour Through Money
  18. Sanctions, restrictions and other “accumulations of peace”
  19. Why not world government? Part 1
  20. Around the Web
  21. Brazilian Elections 2014: Results and Problems
  22. How to Date a Woman and Why I Love America
  23. Les pumas de grande-banlieue: histoires d’emigration
  24. Brazilian Elections 2014: Preview
  25. Blaming Finance, Ignoring Real Causes
  26. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Marsilius of Padua on the Defence of civic Peace
  27. “The Lack of Competition/Diversity”: One objection to world government that shouldn’t be made
  28. Stephen Cox Reviews Delacroix’s New Book

September 2014

  1. A New Chicago School?
  2. Rent Control: a Case Study
  3. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Seneca on Mercy and on Anger
  4. Some ramblings on intellectual diversity (in universities and in libertarianism)
  5. Part Two of Capitalism for the Intelligent Ignorant: the Actors
  6. Local Citizenship
  7. Finding Books in Cuba
  8. La escasez habanera
  9. Libertarians and World Government, Part 3
  10. Around the Web
  11. Capitalism for the Intelligent but Ignorant – Part One: the Constraints
  12. Scotland, Nation, and Liberty
  13. A Letter to Stuff You Should Know
  14. Why cash is beautiful
  15. A few remarks on interventions in Syria and Iraq
  16. On Conspiracies and Immigration Reform
  17. Un autre livre.
  18. From the Comments: Western Military Intervention and the Reductio ad Hitlerum
  19. Fairy Dust and the National Interest: Squaring the Round Humanitarian Peg
  20. Humanitarian Wars and the Political Factions of the Arab World: A Concise Primer
  21. The New Caliphate in the Middle East: When Islamists experiment with libertarianism (and why the West should do the same)
  22. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Cicero’s On the Republic
  23. Riding Coach Through Atlas Shrugged: Part 4 – Governor’s Ball
  24. Riding Coach Through Atlas Shrugged Part 3: Hit The Switch
  25. Human Nature, War and Armed Conflict
  26. Despedida
  27. Great Review of Delacroix’s New Book
  28. Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have ‘Nothing to Hide’ – The Chronicle of Higher Education

August 2014

  1. More on the inherent conservatism of the Left
  2. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Rome and Carthage in the Histories of Polybius
  3. Property rights and reclining seats
  4. What Would A Political Union of the EU, the NAFTA States and Japan-South Korea Look Like?
  5. What does the Obama administration hope to accomplish?
  6. Idea for a story
  7. Rational Ignorance, Fairy Dust and Pissing Away the Future: Libertarians are Selfish and Stupid
  8. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Euripides’ Tragedy Ion
  9. The California Solar Energy Property-Tax Exemption
  10. О психологии законодательной системы в России
  11. Tamny on Fractional-Reserve Banking: Right Conclusion, Faulty Analysis
  12. Israel-Palestine: Is a reasonable debate possible?
  13. Ken White explains the legal logic of the Ferguson shooting
  14. From the Comments: On the Impossibility of Secession Within the European Union
  15. An Excellent Analysis of Karl Marx and His System by Leszek Kolakowski
  16. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Sophocles, the Tragedies of Oedipus and Antigone
  17. The Concept of Profit
  18. A Brief Glimpse into Autarky: Russian Edition
  19. From the Comments: Military Alliances and the Free Rider Problem
  20. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Aeschylus, Tragedy and the Oresteia
  21. Individual Sovereignty
  22. Fiction Reading
  23. From the Comments: Does Israel have the moral upper hand on Palestinians in Gaza?
  24. “Cut the crap about the gender pay gap”
  25. Around the Web
  26. Classifying America: Government’s Power to Define is the Power to Discriminate
  27. Updates and Accolades

July 2014

  1. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Pericles and the Funeral Oration
  2. Is Australia’s Carbon Tax Repeal Really Market Enhancing?
  3. Gratis vs Libre: Why can’t they get it?
  4. Expanding the Liberty Canon: Aristotle
  5. Review of Claire Conner’s Wrapped in the Flag
  6. California Times Six
  7. Delacroix’s new book is available in hard copy
  8. Secession and international alliances go together
  9. Around the Web
  10. Riding Coach through Atlas Shrugged: Chapter 2 – Whistling In the People’s Key.
  11. A California Crack-Up?
  12. Another Liberty Canon: Foucault
  13. How the Rentenbank Stopped Inflation
  14. Tabarrok on “Bernanke vs. Friedman”
  15. Riding Coach Through Atlas Shrugged. Chapter 1: The Calendar Hung Itself.
  16. Into the ear of every anarchist that sleeps but doesn’t dream…
  17. How to Achieve Peace in Gaza
  18. 1953
  19. The Origin of Expression “Nazi” and How it was Introduced into English Usage
  20. Another Liberty Canon: Arendt
  21. Entendiendo la inmigración a los Estados Unidos
  22. The European Union Needs More States, Not More Territory
  23. Around the Web
  24. Deviant Tendency: An inside look at the politics of Iran
  25. Another Liberty Canon: Nietzsche
  26. From the Comments: Has the deontological puzzle been solved?
  27. Are drugs actually bad for you?
  28. Immigrant Children Victims of Drug War

June 2014

  1. Increased/Deadly Potency in Heroin Markets due to Fentanyl
  2. Ed Lazear’s WSJ op-ed on California’s water problems
  3. Around the Web
  4. Surowiecki on Intellectual Piracy
  5. Deontology versus Consequentialism: The Great Libertarian Divide
  6. Another Liberty Canon: Kierkegaard
  7. My REASON review on the Panic of 1837
  8. Обзор событий в России за последние несколько недель. Часть 2
  9. Обзор событий в России за последние несколько недель. Часть 1
  10. Central Banks’ Stock Socialism
  11. “A SWAT team blew a hole in my 2-year-old son ” [SALON]
  12. Bear With Me
  13. New Issue of Econ Journal Watch: Does Economics Need an Infusion of Religious or Quasi-Religious Formulations?
  14. A few further remarks on foreign policy and libertarianism
  15. From the Comments: The “Strong Defense” argument against libertarian realism
  16. U.S. Should Follow Nonintervention in Iraq
  17. Another Liberty Canon: Montaigne
  18. Request for Technical Opinions
  19. Identity Crisis: An anecdote.
  20. A Liberal: To Be or Not To Be (Happy #LiberalismDay!)
  21. Ultra-libéralisme – A French Tale
  22. Liberalism Unrelinquished: Some Tactical Thoughts
  23. Around the Web
  24. Iraq: Four Comments
  25. Another Liberty Canon
  26. Update from Austin, and a Warm Welcome too
  27. Hayekian Environmental Policy
  28. Karl Marx versus Thomas Piketty
  29. How to value international law as a classical liberal
  30. The state alone cannot be blamed for “sham Arab democracy”
  31. The Discovery Doctrine of Land Ownership
  32. Global Warming and Scholarly Conspiracies, etc. Part Two
  33. Growing Weed in Humboldt County (and the Economics of Prohibition)
  34. The Lost Sergeant Lost Again! (Updated)
  35. Another Preposterous Attempt to Punish Evil Foreign Regimes
  36. “A foreign policy with a price”
  37. Economists and Environmentalists: Divergent Values?
  38. A cultura e os direitos de propriedade

May 2014

  1. Democrat Incompetence and Mendacity, in Nine Points
  2. Hume and Humboldt
  3. Scholarly Conspiracies, Scholarly Corruption and Global Warming: Part One
  4. The Skyscraper Curse
  5. My Summer of ’63: Bureaucracy, Sex and Alternating Current
  6. Around the Web
  7. #LiberalismDay: Calling all classical liberals and libertarians
  8. A Renegade History of the United States: a brief response
  9. Slavery and the footnotes
  10. Eduardo Galeano Disavows ‘Open Veins of Latin America’
  11. Piketty’s numbers on inequality don’t add up
  12. Обзор событий в России за последний месяц
  13. Climate Change and Flat Earthers
  14. A Warm Welcome Please
  15. Heads up Pennsylvanians you just became less free!
  16. Financial Literacy Test
  17. From the Comments: A Puzzle About Percentages
  18. Where the World’s Unsold Cars Go To Die [Zerohedge]
  19. The Chinese Get Richer, I Become Poorer. Right? Dreaded Percentages!
  20. Normas, decisiones y complejidad
  21. The concept of “dispersed knowledge” should be a commonplace!
  22. Neoliberalism: When French philosophy thinks about American economics
  23. Dragging the Poor Slobs Into War
  24. Change is on the way in India, but is this a good thing?
  25. Around the Web
  26. Are libertarians more intelligent than conservatives and liberals?
  27. Kidnapped Girls: a Victory for Twitters and for Ms Obama!
  28. Radiations: Report is in!
  29. Precios inflacionarios en la industria farmacéutica global
  30. The Problem with Modern Monetary Theory
  31. Useful neoconservative insights
  32. Choques reais e choques monetários…juntos – observações aleatória sobre bitcoin, Lucas, Marschak e, claro, política monetária
  33. Energy Primer for Libertarians (or anyone else)
  34. Abstract Ideas Don’t Deserve Patents [NY Times]
  35. Open Access Gary Becker papers, and a couple of thoughtful links on him
  36. Eurocraine and Russocraine
  37. Irrationality, Self-indulgence, Childishness, Bizarre Beliefs, and Innovation: From the Belly of the Beast
  38. “The Economic Origins of Territorial States”
  39. In Utah
  40. From the Comments: Open Borders and Substantial Increases in GDP
  41. Around the Web
  42. A Racist Old Man. So?

April 2014

  1. New Book
  2. George Keenan’s racism *AND* affinity for the Democratic Party confuses Left-wing journalist
  3. Physics in Human Action
  4. Delacroix’s Autobiography is now out on Kindle
  5. Thoughts on the Tom Woods Show
  6. Failure and learning
  7. Voter Fraud; Women as People
  8. What’s the One Big Change?
  9. The subsidies a…
  10. La France et Apple
  11. Fighting Obama!
  12. Courting Campaign Money
  13. Princeton Concludes What Kind of Government America Really Has, and It’s Not a Democracy
  14. Встреча в Женеве по украинскому вопросу
  15. Around the Web
  16. Are GMOs Bad For Me?
  17. Привет из Империи Зла
  18. Unequal Pay: For Women Only – Part Two (There really is a Part One.)
  19. Boys’ Toys, Girls’ Toys
  20. Unequal Pay: For Women Only – Part One.
  21. Leçon d’Anglais (je ne sais plus quel numéro):
  22. Short blurb on Murray Rothbard
  23. La Complainte du travailleur francais immigré en Californie.
  24. Around the Web
  25. What is Europe?
  26. War criminal Watch: Condoleezza Rice now on dropbox’s board of directors.
  27. Australia may ban [more] boycotts…
  28. The Knowledge P…
  29. School Choice for Lunch
  30. Around the Web
  31. Regulation doesn’t have to mean licensure!
  32. From the Comments: What’s the difference between state-sponsored terrorism and geopolitics?
  33. Quer menos jornalistas assassinados?
  34. War Exposure and Suicide, a Scientific Study
  35. Let’s leave the fairy tales behind
  36. Is the Political Left Today’s Conservative Faction?
  37. Around the Web
  38. 3,278 Americans Are Serving Life Sentences for Nonviolent Crimes, Report Says
  39. A very illuminating comment over on Reddit.com
  40. From the Comments: Power and the Rhymes of History
  41. May I Present
  42. Ukraine: The Diplomatic Solution; the Conservative Blessing in ObamaCare!

March 2014

  1. Another Warm Welcome
  2. Undercover Occupants
  3. A Reverse Crimea in the West: Kaliningrad
  4. Towards a Free-Market Global Climate Treaty
  5. More regions contemplating independence?
  6. Warm Welcomes Please
  7. The Internet Needs a Multitude of Firm Guiding Hands Like I Need….
  8. Ideology and the Alliance for Progress: Charting the Boundaries of the Welfare State
  9. Le Contrôle des armes aux Etats-Unis ; l’essort économique français
  10. Polystate – book 3
  11. Great Adaptation of Harrison Bergeron
  12. Polystate: Book 2
  13. Secession and libertarianism – Ukraine Edition
  14. Recension: The Problem of Political Authority, av Michael Huemer
  15. Institutions and the GDP
  16. Quick thoughts on Mexico and trade
  17. I Used to Be French:….
  18. Instituições e Cultura do Capitalismo de Compadres
  19. Диванные войска медленного реагирования
  20. Возвращаясь к нашей ситуации…
  21. Demos sin cracia
  22. Would you buy “Made in USA by Rich White People”?
  23. Natural Law and Economics
  24. On Stephen Hawking, Vader and Being More Machine Than Human
  25. El legado de Hugo Chávez
  26. Polystate, part 2
  27. A thought on competition
  28. Ukraine
  29. A Bit More on Ukraine
  30. Towards a Free and Prosperous Ukraine
  31. Are small businesses entrepreneurial?
  32. From the Comments: Musings on the Ukraine Fiasco
  33. О ситуации с Украиной и Россией
  34. Le nouveau racisme américain et l’impérialisme français
  35. Constitutional Political Economy and Jeopardy
  36. Ukraine, Russia, the West and a Coasean Bargain?

February 2014

  1. Could there be a college bubble?
  2. A review in n parts: Polystate, part 1
  3. Conjugal Relations
  4. The socialist roots of Nazism (and the Left’s typical response)
  5. The Myth of Common Property
  6. People: neither blithering idiots nor towering geniuses
  7. From the Comments: An embarrassment of riches, a stable full of straw
  8. My Thoughts on Marvin
  9. In response to a comment
  10. From the Comments: Fallacies in the Threads
  11. Around the Web
  12. Plebiscito: la solución para los problemas de Nicolás Maduro
  13. Thoughts on climate change
  14. A brief (but very good) history of West Africa
  15. Não é fácil saber se há correlação entre…
  16. Another example of double-speak: This is what happens when Time Warner Cable is forced to compete
  17. Some interesting links on post secondary schooling
  18. Small Town Exhibitionism
  19. A taste of local flavor: Remington Outdoor Company to announce major expansion to Huntsville
  20. Around the Web
  21. Mais guerras, mais crescimento econômico? Não!
  22. The Theory of the Non-Working Class
  23. Thousands of Connecticut Gun Owners ‘Flout’ New Registration Law
  24. Italy overturns ‘absurd’ drug law equating marijuana and hard drugs
  25. What’s up with decentralization (“Administrative Unit Proliferation”) in Uganda these days?
  26. Eye Candy
  27. The Republican Proposal on Illegal Immigrants and, the French Are Coming
  28. Wait, what?!
  29. Из американских школ – в российские
  30. Obama: “I can do what I want”
  31. California’s Environmental Mal-Litigation
  32. Imperialisms, Old and New: Sykes-Picot and the United Nations
  33. Немного об Олимпиаде
  34. Keynesianism, the Global Economy, and Responsibility
  35. From the Comments: Regulations, Market Failures, and the Fait Accompli
  36. Order, Order, Order
  37. Liberdade, homofobia, heterofobia…
  38. “Illegal Immigration: Bad Faith and Mental Confusion”
  39. Risks Of Regulation
  40. “Bizarre Conservative Ideas About Immigration”
  41. “Cybernetics in the Service of Communism”
  42. The Keystone Pipeline
  43. Around the Web
  44. Another Belated Warm Welcome
  45. A Belated Warm Welcome
  46. Fractional Reserves in Free Banking
  47. The Power of Propaganda and the Japanese Empire
  48. A Zoo in the Streets
  49. African development and mismeasuring economies (two separate topics)

January 2014

  1. О российском телеканале “Дождь”, особом пути, менталитете и памяти
  2. New issue of Econ Journal Watch is out
  3. Kant och kapitalismen
  4. SOTU: a Masterwork of Co-option.
  5. The State of the Union and the State of our Liberties
  6. From the Comments: More on Property Rights
  7. Rick Weighs on Intellectual Property: More Questions Than Answers
  8. Gratitude to a Power Pole
  9. Trade and cruelty
  10. UK considering long prison terms for file sharers
  11. Is China running out of cash?
  12. Oxfam: Combined wealth of the 85 richest people is equal to that of the poorest 3.5 billion – half the world’s population
  13. Around the Web
  14. Nice Weather, Female Exhibitionism, and Scientific Research
  15. Why Young Women Are Stupid (If They Are): A Scientific Inquiry
  16. Creative Destruction in the Levant
  17. Weekly Wakeup 01-24-2014
  18. Myths about Libertarianism
  19. “The Idea Trap” e o nacional-inflacionismo venezuelano-argentino
  20. Seven Ways Libertarians Sometimes Run Off the Rails
  21. Do we have a Natural Right to be Annoying?
  22. Some quick thoughts about political entrepreneurship
  23. Around the Web
  24. David Theroux’s latest on Secular Theocracy, Part 2
  25. Introducing the Weekly Wakeup
  26. What is entrepreneurship and why should you care?
  27. Turn the Page; New Bombings in Russia
  28. Frihet eller rättvisa?
  29. Bons restaurantes e liberdade
  30. From the Comments: Was Colonialism Good for the Natives?
  31. David Theroux’s latest on Secular Theocracy
  32. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting….
  33. Around the Web
  34. Has Nobel Laureate Gary Becker been reading NOL?
  35. Is President Obama the culmination of American Marxism?
  36. The Paleo Diet and the Vegetarians
  37. Законы, вступившие в силу в России в 2014 году
  38. Inequality: the Solutions
  39. Elephant Poaching: National Tragedy or Tragedy of the Commons?
  40. The success of Kalashnikov? Still elusive
  41. Is free trade an expediency?
  42. What’s Up with New Zealand?
  43. Around the Web: Highly Recommended Reading Edition
  44. Global Junk Science: a Small Window
  45. From the Comments: Incentives, Academe, Science and Grants
  46. 2013: Thanks for a great year

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